A Roll of Early American Arms

Personal heraldry has been used in what is now the United States since the earliest European settlements. This roll of arms borne in the present-day United States before 1825, compiled by AHS members, is intended to document the vitality of the American heraldic tradition over the years.

Note: Arms are included in this roll based on use as attributed by the sources given. Where it has been possible to validate the user's right to the arms or actual use of them, that information is provided. Names given in italics indicate that we are unaware of any contemporary evidence that the person to whom the sources attribute the arms actually used them, but this should not necessarily be interpreted as evidence of non-use of the arms.

Arms are indexed by the first letter of the armiger's last name. Names beginning with the particules "de," "von," "van," and the like are generally found under the name of the principal word in the surname. Where a person bore multiple surnames, or a surname and title, the arms appear under the name by which he or she is best known in the United States.

In a landscape, upon a terrace a boy brandishing a musket and a man holding up a wine cup, both in their dexter hands, between a wine-cask upon a rack in dexter and a grapevine fructed in sinister all proper

Brothers; both appear on the pedigree in which the arms are confirmed to their father George Wyatt of Boxley at the 1619 visitation of Kent. Crozier and Bolton blazon the horse barnacle as "ringed."1. In Virginia, 1621-?.2. To Virginia, 1621; governor of Virginia, 1621-25 and 1639-41